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Logan won our Superstar Writer of the Week award this week for all of his hard work and perseverance in Literacy this week.

At the beginning of the week, you were able to work in a group, to practise reciting a poem and then performed it at the end of the lesson. Your poem based on the sense of touch was full of brilliant expanded noun phrases and you tried really hard to sound out your words carefully. Well done Logan.

Well done to our Mathematician of the Week. He was so surprised when he heard that he was the winner this week.

You have impressed all of the adults in Pearl this week with your attitude to your maths work, the ability to show your working out and you can explain how you found your answers to explain how multiplication and division are linked. Well done 🙂

We used magnifying glasses and microscopes to look at the seeds in more detail and then had a go at sketching them in our sketch books.

Another question we had was: How do plants grow?

We have set up some greenhouses that stick to the window so that we can see how a seed germinates and we found that we had more questions that we wanted to ask. We have learnt that plants need air, water and sunlight to grow.

We planted different seeds to see if they all germinated in the same way. We planted sweetcorn, peas, tomatoes, pumpkins and carrots. Come back in a few weeks to see what we have found out.

We completed a KWL grid to think about what we knew already and then asked questions about what we would like to find out about at the end of the topic. This is displayed on our Science working wall to remind us of the questions we wanted to find out the answers to.

We have also set up an investigation to see what seeds and bulbs need to grow. Every week, we will be completing a seed and bulb diary to see if they grow differently in different conditions. We have 6 jars on the go to see which one will grow best…

Jar A – Water, air, sand and light

Jar B – Water, air, light but no soil

Jar C – Air, light, soil but no water

Jar D – Water, light, soil but no air

Jar E – Water, air, soil but no light

Jar F – Water, air, soil but kept in the dark.

Which do you think will grow the best?

Write in the comments section if you would like to ask us a question or tell us something about plants that would help us to learn something new.

Back in October, we wrote lots of different types of poems about animals in Literacy, for a competition.

We are very proud to announce that some of our poems have been chosen to be published in an anthology for South and West Yorkshire.

Everyone has received a certificate for taking part and a bookmark.

Publication date is 28th February 2017 so the final book should be coming our way very soon. Miss Varley and Miss Morris are very proud of you all! Well done to everyone. Definitely some famous writers amongst us!